Books Quote by Alan Bold Download Open image “The poet lives as long as his lines are imprinted on the minds of his readers.” — Alan Bold ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Lines Long Mind Poet Poetry Psychology Reader
The poet will write for his peers alone. He will remember only that he saw truth and beauty from his position, and expect the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A poem's life and death dependeth still Not on the poet's wits, but reader's will. — Alexander Brome Copy Share Image
“A poet writes what they see every day, what they know, what they’ve lived or barely lived through.” — Jason E. Hodges Copy Share Image
“no poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.” — W.H. Auden Copy Share Image
He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life. — George Sand Copy Share Image
with poems one accomplishes so little when one writes them early. One should hold off and gather sense and sweetness a whole life long,… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“In another life I would have liked to be a poet, I just can’t stop the lines in time, so I’m a novelist.” — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
The poet's other readers are the ancient poets, who look upon the freshly written pages from an incorruptible distance. Their poetic forms are permanent,… — Salvatore Quasimodo Copy Share Image
I wanted to write the kind of poetry that people read and remembered, that they lived by - the kinds of lines that I… — Tracy K. Smith Copy Share Image
Poets can't resist the dramatic pull of their lives and so inevitably write autobiographical verse. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Poems seem to have a life of their own. They tell you when enough is enough. — Thomas Lynch Copy Share Image
There's no leaving Edinburgh, No shifting it around: it stays with you, always. — Alan Bold Copy Share Image
Edinburgh is an experience A city of enormous gifts Whose streets sing of history Whose cobbles tell tales. — Alan Bold Copy Share Image
That which once united man Now drives him apart.We are not helpless Creatures crashing onwards irresistibly to doom. There is time for everything and… — Alan Bold Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
